“Never leave, never forsake.”
After Empress Jiuhua finished speaking, she and the Chaos Heavenly Emperor turned together toward the depths of the Immortal Realm’s core.
The Immortal Realm had been completely shattered, yet that darkness had not vanished with the Great Dao. Instead, it had grown even larger amid the ruins!
The three Outer Gods lingered behind the darkness. With the Immortal Realm no longer restrained by its complete Great Dao, they could now send even more power into this place. Countless dark-red eyes hung in the void, sweeping across the ruins of the Immortal Realm in search of the seeds that had already been sent away.
Boundless flesh grew along the broken Great Dao, swallowing nearby stars, minor worlds, and the corpses of Immortal Emperors whole.
The final Outer God still did not reveal its form, yet under its influence, the remaining laws of the Immortal Realm continued to change!
“Hmph.”
The Chaos Heavenly Emperor watched this scene and pressed one hand forward. The starry sky that had just been restored once again fell into silence.
Billions upon billions of stars collapsed at the same time, while the resurrected corpses of the Immortal Emperors turned to ash within the Chaos Great Dao, leaving not the slightest trace behind.
“As long as the core of the Immortal Realm remains, they will not leave.”
The Chaos Heavenly Emperor’s voice remained calm, but his gaze had already pierced through the darkness and seen what the three Outer Gods were truly waiting for.
The core of the Immortal Realm had once connected all the myriad worlds. Within it remained the traces left behind by every immortal path, every world, and the karma of all living beings.
As long as the core fell into the hands of the Outer Gods, the seeds that had fled into the endless streams of time and space would eventually be found again.
But the core of the Immortal Realm could not be destroyed now.
Those worlds had already lost their immortal paths and could no longer communicate with one another. Only the core could locate them again in the future.
Empress Jiuhua understood this as well.
“You take the core. I’ll stay behind.”
The Chaos Heavenly Emperor glanced at her. “You can’t stop them.”
“Even if I can’t, I still have to try.”
Empress Jiuhua raised her battered Imperial Sword. The Great Dao unfurled behind her, and a vast sword intent instantly covered the entire expanse of the Immortal Realm’s ruins.
She was the empress who had suppressed an entire era. A casual slash from her could tear apart a sea of stars, and at her peak, she could even slay an Immortal Emperor.
Yet in the face of the entrance left behind by the three Outer Gods, even if she burned her imperial body to nothing, she could delay them for only a few breaths.
The Chaos Heavenly Emperor did not continue arguing with her. He merely raised his hand and pointed toward the last few fragments of worlds that had yet to depart in the distance.
“There are still people over there.”
Empress Jiuhua followed his gaze. Several surviving Immortal Emperors were escorting the seeds of life, while vast clouds of dark-red mist had already begun to appear around them.
If those worlds were caught by the Outer Gods, all the sacrifices made before this would be rendered meaningless.
“You go and escort them.”
“And you?”
The Chaos Heavenly Emperor lifted his head and looked toward the depths of the darkness. His tone remained almost unchanged.
“I’ll stay here and guard the entrance for all of you.”
Empress Jiuhua—Luo Xi—finally revealed unmistakable panic in her eyes.
“You’re planning to leave your imperial body here?”
The Chaos Heavenly Emperor nodded gently.
His Chaos Imperishable Body had reached the end of the immortal path. Ordinary Immortal Emperors could not truly harm this flesh, and only it could endure the prolonged erosion of the Outer Gods.
As long as the Chaos imperial body remained suppressing the core of the Immortal Realm, the three Outer Gods would be unable to bypass this place and enter the worlds that had already escaped.
The price was equally clear.
The Chaos imperial body would remain forever before the darkness, enduring the Outer Gods’ ceaseless corruption of his mind, flesh, and Great Dao.
Perhaps after billions upon billions of years, this imperial body that had once suppressed the Immortal Realm would lose its instincts and become the most suitable vessel for the descent of the three Outer Gods.
The Chaos Heavenly Emperor could no longer turn back.
Before his imperial body completely lost control, he had to let the Immortal Reincarnation Body carry the core of the Immortal Realm and search for a true chance at survival.
“You’ll lose your Chaos Imperishable Body.”
Empress Jiuhua looked at the man before her, her voice trembling faintly.
“You’ll lose all your cultivation as well.”
“Mm. I still have the power of chaos. There’s still a chance that I can cultivate the Chaos Imperishable Body again.”
“It's worth a try.”
The Chaos Heavenly Emperor’s answer remained as simple as ever, as though he were not giving up the power that had suppressed an entire era, but merely abandoning something insignificant.
Yet Empress Jiuhua knew all too well that after this moment, the Chaos Heavenly Emperor standing before her would truly vanish from the Immortal Realm.
The person who entered reincarnation would lose his cultivation and seal away his memories, beginning anew across countless ages and worlds.
He might become an ordinary person.
He might die before he had the chance to grow.
He might pass through countless reincarnations and still fail to find the power needed to defeat the Outer Gods.
But if he stayed here, even that faint possibility would be lost.
“…%*&…&*…(*…”
A voice that could not be understood came from the depths of the darkness. The dark-red eyes turned simultaneously, all of them fixing upon the Chaos Heavenly Emperor.
The first Outer God had already seen through his choice.
Vast flesh covered dozens of star systems, yet in the hands of the Chaos Heavenly Emperor, it was no more than a writhing worm.
“Hmph. Disgusting thing.”
His arm suddenly tensed. Half the darkness, along with the flesh of the Outer God, was torn apart at once, and dark-red blood splashed across the shattered Immortal Realm.
At that moment, the third Outer God also changed the final laws of the Immortal Realm. Every time the Chaos Heavenly Emperor took a step forward, he returned to his original position.
Time, space, and karma continuously overlapped. The entire core of the Immortal Realm was trapped within the same inescapable moment.
The Chaos Heavenly Emperor took another step.
When his foot came down, the river of time split apart down the middle, while the overlapping spaces shattered layer by layer beneath the power of chaos.
“This is my Immortal Realm.”
“You don’t get to decide here.”
“I am the Chaos Heavenly Emperor—the strongest beneath the heavens.”
The Chaos Heavenly Emperor walked step by step toward the darkness. Every time his foot landed, the ruins of the Immortal Realm trembled, and the remnants of the Great Dao continued gathering behind him.
Empress Jiuhua tried to follow, only to discover that a chaotic curtain of light had already formed ahead, separating her and the remaining seeds from him.
She brought her sword down. Vast stretches of the starry river split in two beneath its radiance, yet the chaotic curtain did not show the slightest crack.
“Heavenly Emperor!”
“Let me through!”
The Chaos Heavenly Emperor did not turn back. He merely drew all the remaining Chaos Great Dao of the Immortal Realm into his imperial body.
The power belonging to the Chaos Heavenly Emperor was completely unleashed at this moment. A vast imperial radiance illuminated the entire shattered Immortal Realm!
Even the stars that had long since gone dark briefly shone again within his light, like the final flash of brilliance before an entire era faded away.
In the distance, the departing living beings turned back one after another and saw a sun unlike anything they had ever witnessed rising at the edge of the Immortal Realm.
That was all the power the Chaos Heavenly Emperor had left behind!
The Chaos Imperishable Body transformed into the boundary of the myriad heavens, while the Chaos Great Dao extended outward along his imperial body and fused completely with the shattered Immortal Realm.
He made his own existence the final boundary that the Outer Gods could not bypass.
With his divine body, he sealed the entrance through which the Outer Gods could descend!
To enter the myriad heavens, the three Outer Gods would first have to alter his perception, seize his flesh, and then erase the fact that the Chaos Heavenly Emperor had ever existed.
So long as even one of those steps remained incomplete, they would be trapped forever behind this darkness.
Empress Jiuhua stood outside the chaotic curtain. Her face had lost all color, but her eyes remained fixed on that retreating figure.
“How long are you going to guard this place?”
The Chaos Heavenly Emperor closed his eyes. His voice passed through the shattered sea of stars and reached the ears of every survivor.
“Until the me of the next life returns.”
“What if we still can’t find it in the next life?”
“Then we’ll search in the life after that.”
The Chaos Heavenly Emperor fell silent for a moment. The aura of an Immortal Emperor gradually sank into the seal, leaving only his final words lingering throughout the heavens.
“I will use this life to hold them back.”
“Those who come after me—find a way to win.”
“A spark can set the sea of stars ablaze.”
With that, the Chaos Heavenly Emperor never spoke again. Only the shadow of the Emperor, seated before the darkness, remained—still illuminating the countless sparks that were drifting into the distance.
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e bizarre and supernatural had descended. The previous emperor was a thoroughgoing tyrant; no longer satisfied with human women, he had set his sights on a stunningly beautiful supernatural entity. He met his end in his bedchamber, drained of all his vital essence. As the legitimate eldest son and crown prince, Wang Hao was thus hastily enthroned, becoming the young emperor of the Great Zhou Dynasty. No sooner had he awakened the "Imperial Sign-In Intelligence System" than he was assassinated by a Son of Destiny—a classic villain's opening. The Great Zhou, ravaged by the former emperor's excesses, was in national decline. The great families within its borders harbored their own treacherous schemes, martial sects began to defy the imperial court's decrees, and border armies, their pay and provisions in arrears, grumbled incessantly against the central government. Fortunately, the central capital was still held secure by the half-million Imperial Guards and fifty thousand Imperial Forest Army who obeyed the court's orders, along with the royal family's hidden reserves of power, barely managing to suppress the realm. As the Great Zhou's finances worsened and supernatural activities grew ever more frequent, the court sat atop a volcano. Ambitious plotters everywhere dreamed of overthrowing the dynasty, and even some reclusive ancient powers emerged, attempting to sway the tides of the world. At the first grand court assembly, the civil and military officials nearly came to blows, fighting tooth and nail over the allocation of fifty million taels of silver from the summer tax revenues. The spectacle opened Wang Hao's eyes—the Great Zhou's bureaucracy was not only corrupt but also martially proficient, a cabinet of all-rounders. Some officials even had the audacity to suggest the emperor release funds from the imperial privy purse to address the emergency. Wang Hao suddenly felt weary. Let it all burn.
